Paula Dean is my T.V. chef hero!

[Joe Fields]

Am I too old for her to adopt?

[Deja Q]

1. No, but Rachel Ray will have to adopt me first!

I'm cute, fuzzy, begs on command, and likes to pet! :D

[Joe Fields]

3. I just drool...

[SacredCow]

2. No, but be sure you have plenty of Lipitor on hand....

Paula's Fried Butter Balls Recipe courtesy Paula Deen
Show: Paula's Party
Episode: Everything's Better With Butter

2 sticks butter
2 ounces cream cheese
Salt and pepper
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 egg, beaten
1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
Peanut oil, for frying


Cream the butter, cream cheese, salt and pepper together with an electric mixer until smooth. Using a very small ice cream scoop, or melon baller, form 1-inch balls of butter mixture and arrange them on a parchment or waxed paper lined sheet pan. Freeze until solid. Coat the frozen balls in flour, egg, and then bread crumbs and freeze again until solid.

When ready to fry, preheat oil in a deep-fryer to 350 degrees F.

Fry balls for 10 to 15 seconds until just light golden. Drain on paper towels before serving.

[Joe Fields]

4. If you can't die healthy, at least you can die fat and sassy!!!

[Beaverhausen]

6. You have to be kidding!

That isn't a real recipe is it? Please tell me it's not. Please...

[SacredCow]

13. Well, here's the link to where I copied it....

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_34925,00.html

[AlCzervik]

5. behold the one pound of butter brownies, receipe from Paula

i made these last july 4th.

[Beaverhausen]

7. are those nuts on the top - or lumps of butter?

[AlCzervik]

8. mini marshmallows--2 bags, i suppose you could leave them out but that would seem wrong.

[Beaverhausen]

9. Oh- ok got it

they do look yummy!

[Joe Fields]

12. stop it already! now you've got me jonesin'...

[Reverend_Smitty]

19. OMG my arteries hurt just looking at them!

and I think I've just suffered a substantial spike in my blood sugar just now...despite all of that, they look so yummy!

[AlCzervik]

20. i should warn people--bring your own insulin.

:o :9

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. lol yeah that's probably a good idea

:P

[wildhorses]

10. paula deen...is like my family

seriesly...

my cousins talk, cook and look just like her.

i love it when i go home:bounce:

i eat REAL good

[bigwillq]

11. I think that would help one relate

I really don't like Paula all that much...she's a bit much for me with all that down home appeal. It's not meant to be offensive but she is kind of like the typical Southern Belle and that's not really my thing.

I like Giada, I am Italian and can relate, and I love Rachael...she's goofy, silly, loud and a bit annoying just like some of my relatives...I can relate to both of them so that's why I like them.

Make sense. :)

[wildhorses]

14. well, that makes sense

cos for me the whole food channel is about de-stressing...

and when i am home with my cuz

i ain't feelin' no stress at all

just a bunch of love.


i guess we do seem over the top to the rest of the nation
but,
we can't help it, we were raised that way :P

[bigwillq]

16. And most Italians were raised to be

loud and obnoxious...Rachael is at least half Italian...:P

[wildhorses]

18. i think they are funny...rachel is until after awhile she gets on my

nerves and i wanna smack her :P

giada is ok...my brother LOVES her but, i think it is cos her boobies be hanging out:P

[bigwillq]

21. My dad loves Giada also

for the same reasons as your brother. :P

[conscious evolution]

29. She annoys me too.

Savannah is my home town.
No one in that town cooks or eats anything like what she cooks.
I look at her show as a commercial for the tourist industry in Savannah.

[Joe Fields]

15. maybe I could get your cousins to adopt me...

:think:

scheming already...

[wildhorses]

17. lord honey

no strangers in the south

y'all come on in
kick your shoes off
take a load off
sit a spell

try some of this pie i just took out of the oven...

and what do you think about this new recipe ...
first time i made it
do you think it is missing anything?

that is the way it is,,,,no lie

[Joe Fields]

24. That's what Paula reminds me of.

She acts like she'd invite a total stranger to sit down for supper, and treat them like royalty in the process.

[xmas74]

26. My best friend's mother is from Georgia.

She's never met a stranger. Every time I visit her she makes me carnation boiled pudding, fried hot dogs w/ cole slaw and tons of sugery iced tea.

I need to make another visit.

[wildhorses]

27. its love on a plate, i'm tellin ya

you can just feel the stress slidin' off your bones:P

[xmas74]

28. And you can feel the calories

quickly traveling to your hips.

[Archae]

22. I love this woman...

And heart surgeons love her too... :D

Double Chocolate Gooey Butter Cake Recipe courtesy Paula Deen
Show: Paula's Party
Episode: Everything's Better With Butter

Butter, for greasing pan, plus 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) butter, melted
1 (18.25 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
1 egg, plus 2 eggs
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
3 to 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 (16-ounce) box powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped nuts

[Joe Fields]

25. That's what I'm talking about. Knee slappin', "Damn, that's the best

thing I EVER ate" kind of food. Cholesterol be damned...

[grasswire]

30. sorry, she comes off as phony to me

Must be a regional thing. And her "boys" look like cats that swallowed the canary, riding her success.

[Joe Fields]

32. I think she seems pretty natural. I watch her all the time, and, at least

to me she doesn't come off as the least bit phony.

[grasswire]

31. dupe, sorry